Would Isabella of Buchan have rendered homage to any other bold usurper, save her minion Robert?
The minion returned his thanks in a cringing tone, made another cringing salute, and shuffled out of the room.
Defn: A size of type next smaller than minion and next larger than agate (or ruby).
Is this the Athenian minion whom the world Voiced so regardfully Shak.
This perversion of words respecting the decrees of Providence to the caprices of James and his beslobbered minion the Duke of Buckingham, is somewhat nearer to blasphemy than even the euphuism of the age can excuse.
So here I was, made out to be an Italian and the owner of a miserable little menagerie which I employed a minion to direct, while myself posing as a man of substance and elegant leisure.
At this juncture, a sudden look of alarm spread over the lady's beauteous face and a lumbering minion of the law stepped before her.
The old mariners of the Pelican and the Minion were questioned all day long for the names of every isle and cape, every fish and bird; while Frank stood by, listening serious and silent.
There's many a man of the old Pelican, sir, and of Captain Hawkins's Minion that knows the Indies as well as I, and longs to be back again.
Hadrian was glad to think that the spirit of his minion had passed into a new star which had then for the first time appeared.
Apotheosis went on apace--apotheosis not merely of the emperors, but of a theurgic philosopher like Apollonius, of a minion like Antinous, of a mere impostor like Alexander of Abonoteichos.
In the reign of Hadrian there was at Lanuvium a college which, by a curious fancy, combined the worship of the pure Diana with that of the deified minion of the emperor.
People, who for generations erected shrines to the minion of Hadrian, might easily believe in the claims of the Antonine emperors to a place among the gods.
According to Webster, a minion is a man who seeks favours by flattery.
I'd like to see that smooth-faced, glass-eyed companyminion dancing on a hot iron.
The ships employed in this voyage were, the Minion belonging to the queen, David Carlet, captain, the John Baptist of London, and the Merlin belonging to Mr Gonson.
God be praised the Minion had no harm at that time.
The Minion and her consort, being 3 or 4 leagues a head of the ships of Mr Hawkins, kept the course for Tenerife, of which they had a better view than the other ships, and by that means they parted company.
Here’s a minion sent down to a corporate town, In hopes to be newly elected; By his prodigal show, you may easily know To the Court he is truly affected.
The foremost rider was a man of thirty-five or so, a stern minion of the law, and he was plainly angry.
As for the stern young minion of the law, he was so overcome by surprise that he did not alter his statue-like pose by so much as a movement of a finger.
Showing how a Minion of Tyranny was terribly punished for interfering with the conservative Women of America.
This able naturalist disgraced himself by being a base toady of the wretched minion Godoy, and by French partisanship, which is high treason to his own country.
Hence the greedy minion Godoy began the spoliation, by seizing the funds, and giving in lieu government securities, which of course turned out to be worthless.
